Aerospace: CAP- Module 7 Questions
and Correct Answers.
most abundant star - Answer Red dwarfs
conduction - Answer heat transfer by touch
convection - Answer heat transfer within the fluid
what happens to air pressure as altitude increases? - Answer air pressure decreases
When was the first space mission commanded by a woman? - Answer 1999
payload - Answer a satellite or space probe carrying humans, animals, or cargo
apogee - Answer the point in an orbit most distant from the body being orbited; the highest
point
perigee - Answer point in an orbit that is closest to the earth (lowest point)
Twin planets - Answer Uranus and Neptune
Where is the asteroid belt located? - Answer Between Mars and Jupiter
order of planets from closest to farthest from the sun - Answer Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
How many missions did Gemini have? - Answer 10 missions
, What did the Gemini missions achieve - Answer US manned space flight that achieved the
first walk in space and first two man capsule
What did the discovery deploy? - Answer Hubble telescope in 1990
How many missions did Apollo have? - Answer 14
What did the Apollo missions achieve? - Answer put Americans on the moon
SpaceX - Answer American manufacturing company and space transportation; owned by Elon
musk
Virgin Galactic - Answer VSS Unity Spaceship and White Knight 2. Aims to provide suborbital
space flights to space tourists
What won the AnsariX prize? - Answer SpaceShipOne
What makes Venus hot? - Answer the greenhouse effect in its atmosphere
Skylab - Answer 1973; first US space station. proved that humans could live and work in
space for extended periods of time
ISS - Answer circa 2000
TELSTAR - Answer first commercial satellite
Copernicus - Answer developed Heliocentric model of universe
Ptolemy - Answer geocentric model of the universe
Alan Shepard - Answer first American in space and first to orbit earth in the Friendship
Johannes Kepler - Answer Laws of planetary motion in the 1700s
Soyuz - Answer A series of Russian/Soviet spacecraft in 1960s still in service today
and Correct Answers.
most abundant star - Answer Red dwarfs
conduction - Answer heat transfer by touch
convection - Answer heat transfer within the fluid
what happens to air pressure as altitude increases? - Answer air pressure decreases
When was the first space mission commanded by a woman? - Answer 1999
payload - Answer a satellite or space probe carrying humans, animals, or cargo
apogee - Answer the point in an orbit most distant from the body being orbited; the highest
point
perigee - Answer point in an orbit that is closest to the earth (lowest point)
Twin planets - Answer Uranus and Neptune
Where is the asteroid belt located? - Answer Between Mars and Jupiter
order of planets from closest to farthest from the sun - Answer Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
How many missions did Gemini have? - Answer 10 missions
, What did the Gemini missions achieve - Answer US manned space flight that achieved the
first walk in space and first two man capsule
What did the discovery deploy? - Answer Hubble telescope in 1990
How many missions did Apollo have? - Answer 14
What did the Apollo missions achieve? - Answer put Americans on the moon
SpaceX - Answer American manufacturing company and space transportation; owned by Elon
musk
Virgin Galactic - Answer VSS Unity Spaceship and White Knight 2. Aims to provide suborbital
space flights to space tourists
What won the AnsariX prize? - Answer SpaceShipOne
What makes Venus hot? - Answer the greenhouse effect in its atmosphere
Skylab - Answer 1973; first US space station. proved that humans could live and work in
space for extended periods of time
ISS - Answer circa 2000
TELSTAR - Answer first commercial satellite
Copernicus - Answer developed Heliocentric model of universe
Ptolemy - Answer geocentric model of the universe
Alan Shepard - Answer first American in space and first to orbit earth in the Friendship
Johannes Kepler - Answer Laws of planetary motion in the 1700s
Soyuz - Answer A series of Russian/Soviet spacecraft in 1960s still in service today
